Dec 5, 2009

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Bonald’s Economic Thought

The French Age of Enlightenment witnessed and celebrated an economic revolution: the rapid growth of speculation and a money economy, and a corresponding diminution in the importance of landed wealth. Bonald believed that the change had been brought about by the practice of usury. He did not condemn all lending at interest as usury, but distinguished between the cases of lending...

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Oct 17, 2009

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Fiat Money: The Fuel of Government

End the Fedby Ron PaulNew York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009How many politicians are capable of writing a book, nay, a paragraph that would be worth reading? Watching them on TV, they seem the most spineless, uninteresting group of people imaginable. It seems obvious why. In the same way diversity leads to a culture that appeals to the lowest common denominator, a popularity...

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May 1, 2009

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The Family Way

Third Ways:How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies—and Why They Disappeared Allan C. CarlsonWilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2007Economic science is so imposing an edifice viewed from outside—with its technical paraphernalia, its libraries full of books and journals, its endowed professorships and international...

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